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...wings be singed by approaching the light. No historical statement can be final, and it is this very uncertainly that keeps research perennial. The successful historian employs the same talents as the successful merchant, penetration and keen judgment of character. But in history we must never forget how important the personal basis and opinions of the narrator are. Tingard says no class of writers have done more to injure history than philosophical writers. What is called comparative history is as far as we can go in philosophical history. The historian may be sagaciously profound without being philosophical. Moral philosophy...
...with such growth there is a correspondingly increasing demand for earnest and intelligent workers; in many ways the physician is becoming the arbiter not only of public health but of public morals and as such, needs to learn well the lesson that his profession teaches, to save others and forget himself...
...that the Society has been going on its uppers, deprived of a superintendent and of old employees at one swoop, with nothing to keep it running but its routine and the organization Mr. Waterman had worked out for it in the past. And I would not have your readers forget that the directors could not help all this; and that Mr. Waterman, as business men and business methods go, is not open to severe censure. Perhaps those clerks would have gone to Mr. Waterman's even it the directors had cut loose from Mr. Waterman entirely and offered higher wages...
...proposition for a dual league, it will be well enough to consider the matter. But to do so now surely puts us in an attitude undignified and cowardly, gives Princeton an undeserved snub, and secures for us her enmity and absolutely nothing else whatever. We seem to forget that so long as the Yale-Princeton game occurs in New York on Thanksgiving day, it will remain the great event of the year, the one that brings in most money to the athletic associations of the colleges competing, the one the great athletes who compete or look on will look forward...
...this tandency has been quietly at work for the last few years. That all class enthusiasm should be crushed out, however, seems far from desirable. We are a little apt in some ways to grow old too soon here at Harvard, and in the development of our individuality to forget that class enthusiasm when kept within proper boun has a distinct and valuable place to fill. The present series of class games seems to have served to revive in some degree this legitimate type of class spirit...